The Youth arm of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has reacted to Peter Okoye of P-square’s Instagram post which questioned the federal government’s purported move to ban production of music videos abroad as ‘insult’ on the Federal government of Nigeria.
The national secretary of the apc youth renaissance group Collins Edwin while reacting to P Square’s Instagram post on the federal government’s ban of shooting Nigerian music videos abroad described Peter Okoye as a “son of darkness.”
Edwin in a statement released said “We read the scurrilous remarks credited to Mr Peter Okoye of the Psquare group against the Federal Government’s job-saving policy in the entertainment industry with great anger and vexation. Least of all persons to make scathing remark against the government is the Psquare group which the local content policy of the Federal Government dusted-up from the valley of obscurity. Where was Peter Okoye or Psquare brand in 1999 when foreign music dominated our airwaves? If not for the government policy which mandated all broadcast stations in Nigeria to pay attention to Nigerian music by playing 95 percent of Nigerian songs every day, would Peter Okoye or Psquare be known to anybody in Nigeria today or would they have competed with better American music which dominated our airwaves then?
After the government has used its policy to brush them up from nothing to something; instead of giving opportunity to other people, they are taking Nigerian jobs to foreign countries through the shooting of music videos abroad.
Now that government have intervened to raise great and better entertainers again, Peter Okoye has the gut to insult the entire Federal Government by calling our great leaders ‘Ndi Ala’ which means mad and stupid people. How dare you say that Psquare”?
Edwin who in the statement called on the security agencies in the country to arrest Mr Peter Okoye for disrespecting our government and bringing it to disrepute further said “If you cannot produce in Nigeria and hire Nigerians, then leave the industry. We must export Nigerian culture to the outside world through our music and videos.”
